| Description | Brief listing of exhibits and exhibitors at the Royal Society's annual displays at Burlington House, London, with descriptive text. Arranged by rooms. Entrance Hall, Rooms 1-4 and Ground Floor. Commencing with a note of lantern slide displays taking place at a specific time during the evening. With a note: 'A portion of the String Band of the Royal Engineers will play in the Entrance Hall throughout the evening'.
Entrance Hall:
'Vivat Victoria Regina'. Tubes are filled with argon and helium arranged so as to form these words. Tubes made by Messrs. Muller & Co., the exhibit arranged by William Ramsay and Morris William Travers.
Room 1 (The Office):
1. Electrical effects of uranium, exhibited by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin.
2. Experiments on cathode rays and some analogous rays, exhibited by Silvanus Phillips Thompson.
Room 2 (Reception Room):
3. Signalling by Hertz waves as practised by Dr. Oliver Lodge, in 1894, with a Branly tube of filings as receiver and now adapted to a Kelvin recorder, exhibited by Alexander Muirhead.
4. Illustrations of the Dansac-Chassagne process of producing photographs in colour, exhibited by Sir Henry Trueman Wood.
5. A selection of dried plants from Tibet, collected by Captain [Henry Hugh Peter] Deasy and Mr. Arnold Pike, Captain [Montagu Sinclair] Welby and Lieut. [Neill] Malcolm, exhibited by William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, the Director, Royal Gardens, Kew.
6. Experiments with Rontgen X-rays, experiments with cathode ray tubes, experiments with oscillatory electrical discharges, exhibited by Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton.
Room 4 (Principal Library):
7. Apparatus showing the phase change of light reflected at a glass-silver surface, exhibited by Mr. E. Edser and Mr. H. Stansfield.
8. Experiments illustrating a new method of controlling the electric arc in its application to photomicrography, exhibited by Thomas Albert Briggs Carver and Joseph Edward Barnard.
9. Living specimens of Proteus anguinus Laurenti, male and female, pigmented individual from cave, young specimen to show the eyes, exhibited by Edward Jeremiah Bles.
10. Pelagic animals from the west coast of Ireland, exhibited by Edward Thomas Browne.
11. The diffraction kaleidoscope, exhibited by Mr. C. P. Butler.
12. Photographic atlas of the Moon, published by the Observatory of Paris, executed by MM. [Maurice] Loewy and [Pierre Henri] Puiseux, exhibited from the Library of the Royal Society.
13. Specimens of electric figures, exhibited by William George Armstrong, Lord Armstrong.
14. Stress effects produced by convective electric discharges, exhibited by Joseph Wilson Swan.
15. Rotating discs demonstrating apparent transformations of colours, exhibited by Shelford Bidwell.
16. Crystals of diamond separated from carburized iron, exhibited by William Chandler Roberts-Austen.
17. Commensalism between marine animals, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
18. Microscopic images formed exclusively by diffracted light, exhibited by George Johnstone Stoney.
19. Examples of animal-forms peculiar to Lake Tanganyika, exhibited by John Edmund Sharrock Moore.
20. Microscopic sections of teeth of fossil reptiles, exhibited by Harry Govier Seeley.
21. Four examples of Bonnaud's process of colour photography, published in 1888, exhibited by Mr. A. F. Bilderbeck Gomess.
22. Egg of Aepyornis maximus (Grandidier) Magagascar, egg of African ostrich for comparison of size, exhibited by Henry Woodward, on behalf of Mr. R. [Robert Ferris?] Damon.
23. Illustrations of the absorption of Rontgen rays by certain elements and their compounds, exhibited by John Hall Gladstone and Walter Hibbert.
24. Ancient Egyptian knives and lance-head of flint, exhibited by Sir John Evans.
25. Models of orchids, by Miss Emett [Edith Delta Blackman] from plants grown in the Royal Gardens, exhibited by William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, the Diirector, Royal Gardens, Kew.
26. New species of British Mymaridae (egg parasites) of 'fairy flies', aquatic and terrestrial specimens, living, exhibited by Mr. F. Enock.
27. Medal struck in gold, silver and bronze to commemorate the 60th year of the reign of Her Majesty the Queen, exhibited by Horace Seymour, Deputy Master of the Mint.
28. Photographs of the Moon taken with the new Thompson 26 in. photographic telescope at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, exhibited by Sir William Christie, the Astronomer Royal.
29. Two induction coil contact makers and breakers, designed by the exhibitor, exhibited by Sir David Salomons.
Ground Floor (Archives):
30. Demonstration of apparatus for exciting high vacuum tubes for X ray work, exhibited by John Macintyre.
Meeting Room:
The following demonstrations with experiments and lantern illustrations will take place at the times specified.
At 9.45 and 11.0 o'clock.
31. Signalling through space without wires, exhibited by William Henry Preece.
At 10.30 o'clock.
32. Photographs illustrating the arrangements of the 1896 Eclipse Expeditions at Kio and Novaya Zemlya, exhibited by Joseph Norman Lockyer.
Refreshments on the Ground Floor.
|